Hegel Phenomenology of Spirit:
94.
ARGUMENT:
the question - is the object presented in sense certainty the kind of essence sense
certainty proclaims
we are only to consider it in the way it presents
COMMENTARY:
the idea of pure presentation - basic - unanalysable facts - essence - is understandable
the thing is we can only know what we know
the object as presented is known as presented
how this object is described - evaluated - analyzed etc. - is a reflective issue
but what of the presentation in itself?
'presentation' is may be the closest we get to a 'value free' account
the object is present to consciousness
we have here a statement of relation
and the relata - consciousness and the object are left undefined - un-described
they are as it were logical terms - just denoting that x is related to y
the relation of presentation - for it to make sense -
must have some content -
that which is presented (the object) is 'presentable' to that which can receive a
presentation (consciousness)
the point is any statement here - on the relation or on the relata - will raise more
questions than it answers
and the final truth of all of this is that there is no end to this questioning
except by fiat - convention or practice
but in a logical sense the object of knowledge (the unknown) is never exhausted by
consciousness (knowing)
the overall point is that the way it presents - what it is that presents - and what it is
presented to
the presentation in short -
is the open question
